Notices by emily, emitter of spooky noise (emily@sparkly.uni.horse), page 4

The solution is apparently to hold the power button down longer than anyone would ever think to do so

Bizarre week update, late Monday morning: had a weird stuck unkillable process on my work machine that showed up in /proc and htop but not ps, rebooted to get rid of it, machine claims to be rebooting any time now and will not even respond to holding the power button down

@JetlagJen not that I know of, but I would both use and contribute to a wiki of "how to do this normal human thing that I've never had to do before", with sections of regionally appropriate advice.

@drdnar @jacqueline recently did this to someone who wasn't familiar with the project's naming history, confused the hell out of them, highly recommended

@aburka @buzzyrobin you are now aware that a USB A plug fits perfectly into an ethernet port

it doesn't *work*, obviously, but it'll physically feel right and confuse the hell out of you for a moment

someone invent an inverse-crowdfunding site, where I can take money away from people with bad ideas

@CppGuy if you can't find anything that supports it out of the box, grab something supported by https://valetudo.cloud/pages/general/supported-robots.html

@klardotsh IME, prior to this people just got the fuck over it and didn't say anything as long as you didn't do anything egregiously unreadable.

But yeah, this is clearly better than human reviewers being picky over trivial nonsense, if you didn't have that luxury.

@glitzersachen @klardotsh You cut off the "IME" that made it not an absolute statement.

watching my work laptop burn through its battery astonishingly quickly, pulling 40W for several minutes, to run eslint --fix so CI won't yell at me over trivial nonsense

It occurs to me that I can't ever write a sudoku solver.

Not because I don't know how to (I can both write code and solve sudoku, combining these skills seems obviously possible), but because it would actively make my life worse to have one: I've discovered that doing sudoku in bed is just the right level of mentally engaging to make me sleepy quickly (a few fixed algorithms that take low but nonzero effort, not exciting enough to stay awake for more), and I also know that I can't bear to do something manually when I spent time automating that specific thing.

having two obscure celebrity names crossing each other is bad crossword puzzle design

Huh. The thing where security software uses (one specific shape of) shields as icons is kind of like the floppy disk save icon thing but with medieval armor.

oh... oh no

I requested access to all the zone files from ICANN because I was mildly curious about something, and got approved within minutes.

And they're sending me an email to let me know.

For each TLD.

All 1150 of them.

me: "I would like to know how to include images in a site generated by Pelican, the static site generator tool"

*googles 'pelican images'*

google: "here is a large number of photographs of pelicans"

Update: this guy got elected.

It's probably fine. He's honest and has high integrity, so surely he wouldn't lie about such things.

One of the city council candidates running this year: "I’m honest. I have high integrity."

how to make sure I do not trust you

just walked in on my partner converting PDFs of screenshots to JPEG for reasons that I'm sure made complete sense at each preceding intermediate step of what she's doing, and I can't help but empathize, this is also how I interact with computers

burning a 2FA backup code because, while I know where my hardware key is, I am too comfy to get up and get it

Experiment aborted, after I caught her dragging my PCB etching tank across the floor by the bubbler's power cord. Also wasn't that effective, sawdust seemed to have clogged the filter very quickly. Ah well.